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how you get all these money to pay for your players though!?
your arena is relatively small, almost like a default size of stadium even if you are setting your tix price almost at max

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everyone in this league.
Is making the stadium bigger and play better the only way to make good money?

make a big sell out of a player and a leave a little aside to pay off the deficit weekly revenues. Sometimes I get a player at 422K and sell him at 1.4M, could've bought him at 1.4M but i didn't, got him at 422k instead and that money i saved becomes the extra I use to overcompensate for the weekly financial deficit that's still minuscule to the revenue I make from selling players.

I won't say making the stadium bigger is the only way to make good money, but it has definitely worked for me. What I like to do is expand a section of the stadium after it sells out twice in a row (cup and PL games don't count). I just add 10% of the current seat capacity and away we go.

so this is just saving money but not making money...am i correct?
This really depend on the player and how many people are bidding on the player...If the player value could have go up to 1.4m and you got him at only the cost of 422k....then you must be very lucky LOL

yeah i get patient with transfer market to find those deals, but I am looking to increase my stadium soon i just have to get myself first out of the relegation shithole gutter.

Well can't say it always helps but lets look at it this way. Let say your arena is default at 5k seats for this example lets just say they are all bleachers. You have a good game and maxed out you make 150000. Then you get beat bad and drop 50%. You now just made 75k instead of 150k. Now lets double your stadium to 10k seats and the same thing happens. As you can see losing stinks but having 10k seats is always going to be better then having fewer because the typical negative you get is a % of the seats you have. It may look bad when you only fill 7k seats in a 15k seat arena but 7k is still more then the smallest you could have if you don't build. I know the numbers aren't near exact but just using this as an example.

Personal example-My arena seats just over 14k. I had a horrible game against VD's (thanks VD's by the way :) ) on TV and it killed my next home game. I only had 7700 show up for my next home game against Tachenko. I still made roughly 152k despite my poor attendance. Good attendance will put my total up to 250k.

Translation-The bigger arena the better

Problem-In division III is much harder to build fast because our money is tied up in salaries to survive. It is a catch 22 but when you can build..............build.

More often then not it is when you buy and sell a player that will determine the price more then the player itself. There are times on the transfer list when a player will be more in demand then othesr therefore you will get more for the player. You will often notice the BB's will flood the market with "retired" players which always lowers the value of your player you are trying to sell. In other words pick the right time to sell and you will always make better money. The same goes for when you buy.

so when do you think is a good time or how to look at the trends?

Always check prior to posting to see if they have flooded the market with retired players. It is also better to post your player and time the posting so that he will be up when people will be on BB anyways i.e. watching a game etc. Most people are looking for that player to get them over the "hump" after the allstar break and in time to get a player off transfer and still have him play in the playoffs. There is no magic solution it is kind of like the stock market in the sense that you never know what is going to happen. I have lost money on players and I have made money it just depends.

putting players on auction on wednseday around 12-2pm EST is always best. Only the poupon of B3 plays wednesday and no one is around, the auctions ends saturday when everyone is on making the market more active then with the small number online on wednesday.

The key is always to look at the situation from 72 hours period apart or 3 days. best time to buy is when the difference between the current number of users with the number of users 72 hours prior to that period of time is greatest. Fridays can be great time to look for players cheap where tuesdays game are on. Sundays early in seasons also good where thursday cup games go on and thou scrimmage not special it draws more online than no games. I find midnights on weekdays to be good times also to find players.

Fella is correct that player worth can cary depending what is on demand in the market, there are times when they can be worth more than other times but this is too hard to predict to really put investment into. Regardless of period of time you always strategize based on timing of the weekday to make the sell/buy i mentioned above and getting players at great bargain will always result in more sell money regardless of period of time.

Last edited by Coach_Gil at 2/1/2011 12:32:19 PM